deranger
@deranger@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Usernames are very personal 4 days ago:
It’s obviously a vintage shitpost
- Comment on Why are they even doing this, the grass wasn't even that tall 1 week ago:
I use an electric mower and do it early as fuck sometimes, like as soon as the sun comes up. Super quiet.
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 2 weeks ago:
ITT: people who didn’t read the article.
Excel is still doing the calculations, not the AI. The AI is helping to write functions. You can easily spot check a couple examples then apply that same formula down the column. I don’t really see the issue.
Of all the things to shove AI into, the first thing that came to my mind years back was Excel. It’s handy when I’m presented a spreadsheet of data at work and I just want to do something like “write a function to extract just the number from a column containing data formatted like LPF_PHASE_OF_CARE [PAF 304001]” because I just want to copy paste all the numbers somewhere. It’s trivial to verify it works correctly, I can examine the formula, and I don’t have to wade through numerous shitty Excel tutorial websites to try and teach myself something I’ll use once or twice a year.
- Comment on State names of the US if there were no letters "A" "M" "E" "R" "I" "C" "A" 2 weeks ago:
Nw Yok fairly close to how some accent around NYC pronounces it, I’m sure.
- Comment on 🚨 PLATYPUS PSA 🚨 2 weeks ago:
Non-necrotizing, non-fatal. There’s waaaaay worse out there, and much more commonly found too.
Pain sucks, no doubt about that, but you’ll survive and not lose a limb.
- Comment on Expand North! So much room up there. 3 weeks ago:
What exactly are you guarding? I figure there’s a reason not many people live outside of that area depicted.
- Comment on Have most people never seen a full starry night sky 4 weeks ago:
It’s not just cities - there’s nearly no dark sky sites in all of Europe, and very few dark sky areas east of the Mississippi in the US.
I didn’t see the Milky Way with my naked eye until driving through NE New Mexico in my late 20s.
darkskymap.com/nightSkyBrightness
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
There’s the answer I was looking for.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I get that, but outside of using aux heat, it seems like identical temp differentials would be identically efficient. The heat pump doesn’t use more energy to heat than cool, the heat pump uses more energy in winter due to a larger difference to overcome.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Why would they use more energy in one direction versus another? This doesn’t really make sense to me. Heating and cooling is just swapping which element is the condenser and which element is the evaporator.
- Comment on This was actually posted by the Owasso Police Department 5 weeks ago:
I genuinely feel like you’re the one who’s trolling here. Goodbye
- Comment on This was actually posted by the Owasso Police Department 5 weeks ago:
I agree with this viewpoint completely, I just don’t see how strictly speaking this is racist. If I dare ask, I get accused of being a racist. No one will explain what is exactly racist about this to me, they just say, “how isn’t it racist” or downvote me. This shit is frustrating. The top comment is calling it racist and I really just don’t understand it.
- Comment on This was actually posted by the Owasso Police Department 5 weeks ago:
Please point out to me what in the text that includes the picture makes this racist then. There is so little text there, I really cannot wrap my mind around how this is racist other than the depiction of a gang. I’m not arguing at all, I’m stating my observations and feelings. Can I not even be open with my potential ignorance over how this is racist, without being accused of being a racist?
- Comment on This was actually posted by the Owasso Police Department 5 weeks ago:
So it’s South Park who’s racist, because they’re the ones who created that caricature.
- Comment on How did you decide what you generally wanted to do with your life? 5 weeks ago:
You don’t need a job you love, hardly anyone gets to do that. It’s amazing if you can, but a job you can tolerate is really all you need. Keep your eyes open for opportunities, take them if it feels right. Trust your instincts.
Save some money. Having a bit of financial freedom can drastically help you with having flexibility to do different things, and you need to do lots of different things to figure out what you like.
You will have to sacrifice comfort at some point and take some leaps into the unknown when the opportunity presents itself.
Most of all, get out of your hometown. The single biggest influence I’ve seen on people turning out great or people getting stuck in their ways is experiencing different things. College can get you part way there, but travel and living away from your hometown, especially if you can swing something international for a while, can help you immensely.
- Comment on This was actually posted by the Owasso Police Department 5 weeks ago:
They’re making a pun off a blood drive based on the gang The Bloods - who are a predominantly African American street gang.
I don’t see the racism. “What up blud” is a common greeting and jumping people in happens in gangs, Blood or otherwise.
- Comment on bird based storage 5 weeks ago:
The analog distortion would be fun to watch propagate from bird to bird.
- Comment on WrestleMania was running wild on you 5 weeks ago:
In any of these “Nobody: “ memes you can crop that line and it changes very little. It’s a shit format imo.
- Comment on I feel like it was on purpose 5 weeks ago:
This guy sucks ass and the mythology behind him is fucked. He was a nightmare neighbor who dumped his literal shit in an open creek and eventually went crazy and had visions from god to kill people. The only reason he didn’t is because of an effective evacuation.
- Comment on Just say it gurl 1 month ago:
Song is Hudson Mohawke - CBAT
- Comment on Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket 1 month ago:
They’re already doing it for apartments and other rentals, and have been for years. Nobody did anything.
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 1 month ago:
It’s kind of interesting that you say elevator music is soulless, not real art, etc. There are some genres of music that are based on elevator music, hold music, “Muzak” in general. It’s just as real as anything else, and people do seek it out.
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 1 month ago:
“They glow in the dark, but you can hit them with your car”
Pretty funny that the slang term “glowies” for feds was started by Terry Davis.
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 1 month ago:
The post nut clarity of realizing that buying that porn game was not such a great idea
- Comment on I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good 1 month ago:
I’d argue that it’s very important, especially since more and more people are using it. Wikipedia is generally correct and people, myself included, edit incorrect things. ChatGPT is a black box and there’s no user feedback. It’s also stupid to waste resources to run an inefficient LLM that a regular search and a few minutes of time, along with like a bite of an apple worth of energy, could easily handle. After all that, you’re going to need to check all those sources chatGPT used anyways, so how much time is it really saving you? At least with Wikipedia I know other people have looked at the same things I’m looking at, and a small percentage of those people will actually correct errors.
- Comment on I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good 1 month ago:
At least some editor will usually make sure Wikipedia is correct. There’s nobody ensuring chatGPT is correct.
- Comment on It’s the little things 1 month ago:
“Palmetto bugs” are just roaches, period. That name refers to either the Florida woods cockroach or the American cockroach.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 1 month ago:
I’ve had my 16TB ironwolf pros spinning for 5 years in my NAS, no issues. People love to trash Seagate but I can’t say I’ve had any issues. I also have 6x10TB barracuda pros and they’re fine too, for about 10 years.
- Comment on Grandma is on her own 1 month ago:
And before all that, you were saying that “filial responsibility laws have NOTHING to do with debt”. Are you gonna ignore that?
Even after I pointed out you misquoted me here, you’re still doing it. You’re leaving out a key piece of the quote which is extremely relevant to your frankly ridiculous claim about being responsible for your parent’s child support debt, or other debts to the state.
Maybe spend less time formatting your text and more time actually reading.
- Comment on Grandma is on her own 1 month ago:
Medical debt is dissolved in probate, genius. Just not the kind related to say, nursing homes. That’s when filial responsibility comes into play. I’m not responsible for my parents medical debt; I am responsible for their care, in some backwards states, and medical debt can be a part of that, but not necessarily, as in the pacemaker example I used earlier.
There’s no ad hominem in my comments. Quote me. Implications are neither here nor there. Me saying your opinion doesn’t matter to me is not an ad hominem. I’m saying you’re wrong because the facts don’t support your points, not because of any personal characteristics you have.